Death By A Thousand Cabinets: How Democracy Defeated France

How a broken political class led a nation to ruin – and why the same instincts still govern her today.

After the unimaginable devastation of World War I, France emerged victorious, yet profoundly scarred. With a million-man army, its primary mission was clear: to secure its borders and ensure Germany could never again threaten its existence.

This imperative, born of four German invasions in a century and the catastrophic destruction of its northern territ…